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The instant irritation in his face sobered her She began, carefully,

to talk of this or that: his journey, the Mercer business, his

health--anything to ain Plainly, it was not the

ht and her purpose of leaving Old

Chester

"Now I must run up-stairs just one minute, and see David," she said in

the thened to ten, but when she

ca that she had stopped to wash David's face--"it

was all stained by tears"--he did not seem impatient

"Your oould be improved by soap and water, o noant to talk to you, and I

haven't much time"

She knew hiayety

she could summon, for that was how he liked her But back in hertre; she could not tell what it was, but she felt it She said to

herself that she would not speak of Mr Benjaht until after

dinner

Little by little, however, her uneasiness subsided It beca had not been too ood, and Lloyd Pryor was very appreciative, and

Helena's charlance and a